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Locust

Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.

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Courbaril 76% connected

See Anime, n.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Water locust 76% connected

A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.

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Tree 76% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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Wood 76% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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Locust tree 70% connected

A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and of…

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Locust tree 92% connected

A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and of…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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